Combinational book for both normal reading and panoramic display

ABSTRACT

A book construction having a spine foldably joining front and back covers. A plurality of leaves are foldably joined together to form an elongated accordion-foldable strip. A continuous panoramic illustration and text relating to the panoramic illustration are applied to the leaves of the strip. The first leaf of the strip is fixedly or detachably engaged to the front cover. The last leaf is detachably engaged to the back cover for conventional, leaf by leaf reading of the book with the leaves held between the covers. Means are provided for stiffening the strip transversely of the strip whereby when pulled out of said covers and substantially fully extended said leaves are free standing for continuous viewing of said panoramic illustration. In a modified form of the invention, the first leaf is detachably engaged to the front cover, and a second panoramic illustration is printed on the back side of the strip.

United States Patent 1 Morse COMBINATIONAL BOOK FOR BOTH NORMAL READINGAND PANORAMIC DISPLAY [7 6] Inventor: Douglas C. Morse, SouthernBoulevard, Newbury, Mass.

[22] Filed: Mar. 26, 1971 [21] Appl. No.: 128,489

Related US. Application Data [63] Continuation-impart of Ser. No.831,616, June 9,

1969, abandoned.

[52] U.S. Cl 283/63, 281/33, 283/62 [51] Int. Cl. 842d 15/00, A47b 23/00[58] Field of Search 281/5; 283/63, 64,

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 943,479 12/1909 Smithson281/5 1,199,761 10/1916 Chase 283/62 1,363,081 12/1920 Brown 283/622,179,172 11/1939 Bonnaire 283/62 3,189,369 6/1965 Walker .1 281/33FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 908,004 8/1945 France 283/34 June 12,1973 Primary Examiner-Lawrence Charles Attorney-Chittick, Pfund, Birch,Samuels & Gauthier [57] ABSTRACT A book construction having a spinefoldably joining front and back covers. A plurality of leaves arefoldably joined together to form an elongated accordionfoldable strip. Acontinuous panoramic illustration and text relating to the panoramicillustration are applied to the leaves of the strip. The first leaf ofthe strip is fixedly or detachably engaged to the front cover. The lastleaf is detachably engaged to the back cover for conventional, leaf byleaf reading of the book with the leaves held between the covers. Meansare provided for stiffening the strip transversely of the strip wherebywhen pulled out of said covers and substantially fully extended saidleaves are free standing for continuous viewing of said panoramicillustration. In a modified form of the invention, the first leaf isdetachably engaged to the front cover, and a second panoramicillustration is printed on the back side of the strip.

9 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures PAIENIED JUN I 2 B73 SHE] 1 BF 4COMBINATIONAL BOOK FOR BOTH NORMAL READING AND PANORAMIC DISPLAY Thisapplication is a'continuation-in-part of copending parent applicationSenNo. 831,616 filed June 9, 1969, now abandoned.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention generally relates to books and ismore particularly directed to an accordion folded book construction. Inrecent years television and movies have decreased the role played bybooks in the amusement life of our young. While it cannot be denied thatthese media have educational value, this development is not withoutdisadvantages to the education of our youth. The paramount educationalshortcoming of these media is that they relate a story in a manner thatrequires little use of inductive reasoning or use of the written word tocomprehend. The youth of today have been preconditioned to the allure ofpictorial presentations at the expense of the development of languageand reasoning skills developed by reading textual material.

Illustrated childrens books and the like in bound form are well known.The conventional format of these books makes it difficult, if notimpossible, to pictorially present the reader with a continuous andpermanent panoramic illustration of the entire subject matter of thebook at a single point in time. Rather, the illustrations must depictvarious segments of the subject matter. Such fragmentation often resultsin the reader's attention wandering and in his failure to comprehend thesubject matter as a whole.

DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART This invention is directed to a book. Forpurposes hereof, a book is defined as comprising many folded and boundsheets containing continuous printing or writing. As used in thepreceding sentence, bound is to be understood to mean constrained orconfined within covers.

Thus the invention is first of all a book as just defined, and moreparticularly a book constructed and arranged so as to have all itsleaves held in place, or within the book covers when they are opened andthe book is held vertically or at an angle as well as horizontal orflat, and the leaves are sequentially turned, as in the conventional ornormal reading of them as a book.

Under the invention, the textual leaves are also removably held withinthe covers, and comprise a continuous, accordion-folded sheet having theutility, by such capacity for removal from the covers, of a freestanding display, when so removed, and thereafter extended, forpanoramic viewing of the matter printed on the leaves.

The invention is thus of a combination book, constructed and arrangedfor and having the alternative capacity both for enclosing, reverselyfolded ordering,

and successive page turning of the leaves as a conventional book, andfor withdrawn ordering, unfolded extension, and free standing set-up ofthe leaves for continuous viewing of the leaves and the matter printedthereon as a panoramic display.

So far as applicant is aware, no such combinational book is found in theprior art.

Thus, Michy French Pat. No. 908,004 dated 8/45 is not a book, as hereindefined, but rather only a folder, of which the leaves are not boundwithin the covers, and could not, even if printed lengthwise of thefolder strip, be manipulated and read as, and within the covers 'heldopen and upstanding as, a book.

Said Michy is not arranged or adapted either for unsupported standing ofits leaves on one long unfolded margin thereof, for lengthwise readingand continuous viewing of printed matter mated and extended thereon as apanoramic display.

Whereas Michys last leaf is inturned and unattached, the leaves ofWalker U.S. Pat. No. 3,189,369 are fixedly joined first and last to thebook covers, denying altogether to Walker applicantconcept of andalternative capacity for pull out extension, and free standingself-support, of the leaves for the panoramic display of the printedmatter thereon. Moreover, by virtue of his peculiar fan foldconstruction, Walkers leaves are denied even the conventional bookmanipulation as under this invention, and wherein the leaves aresuccessively turned and sequentially read while bound within the bookcovers and with their infolds substantially engaged against the spine ofthe book.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The combinational, alternatively normallyreadable and panoramic displayable book of the invention has a pluralityof leaves flexibly or reverse hingedly secured together to form anaccordion-foldable strip. The strip is preferably formed from a singleelongated sheet of paper which is folded transversely of its length.Illustration matter is printed on the leaves of and to be viewedlengthwise of and also of continuously of the strip with theillustration portions on individual of said leaves being matedlengthwise with the illustration portions on adjacent of said leaves,thereby forming a integrated continuous illustration characterized as apanoramic display when the leaves are unfolded and extended to bepanoramic displayable. Textual matter or material relating to theillustration matter is also lengthwise printed on various leaves of thestrip. The leaves in the accordion-folded condition held within frontand back covers which are in turn foldably engaged at a spine. The firstleaf of the strip is secured to the inside of the front cover; the lastleaf is detachably engaged to the back cover; and the proportion andarrangement of the first and last leaves relative to the front and backcovers, and the construction and arrangement also of the spine or backof the book, is such as to retain the infolds of the intermediate ofsaid leaves against, and to prevent their fallout away from, said spine,whereby said leaves may be turned and viewed held within the coverswhile the latter are held open and inclined as in the normal reading ofthe book.

The strip is preferably fabricated of a heavy grained paper with thegrain of the paper running transverse to the longitudinal dimension ofthe strip, this enabling the strip to be unfolded, after being detachedfrom the rear cover, and stood on one longitudinal edge thereof to forma free-standing display unit.

To reinforce the book construction when the strip is engaged to the rearcover panel, a grained reinforcing sheet may be laminated to the back ofthe last leaf, and oriented with its grain parallel to the longitudinaldimension of the strip. This reinforcing structure stabilizes the stripwhen engaged to the rear cover, as within a pocket, to facilitatereading of the book.

In a modified form of the invention, the first leaf is adapted to bereceived in a pocket or other means for detachably engaging that to thefront cover, and the back side of the strip is lengthwise printed withcontinuous text and/or illustration matter similarly as the front sideof the strip.

The combinational or normally readable, panoramic displayable bookhereof may first be read page by page in conventional manner. Thepanoramic illustration tends to hold the reader's attention by enablinghim to visually identify with the characters of the text. As the storyunfolds, the readers inductive reasoning is jogged to fit the variouspieces into a harmonious whole. After reading, the last leaf of the bookmay be detached from the back cover and the strip pulled out andextended or unfolded to form a standing display of the panoramicillustration as a dramatic and permanent reminder of the story.

The strip of the modified form of the invention may thereafter beremoved from the front cover, reversed to display the matter printed onthe back side of the strip, reattached to the front cover, andthereafter used as a teaching tool for creative writing and the like.

Books of this type have significant educational value, particularly foryoung children, by animating the textual material and by facilitatingassembling the various segments of the story together to form anintegral whole.

Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a bookconstruction capable of presenting related textual and panoramicpictorial matter in both book and display form.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a bookconstruction having an elongated strip bearing a continuous panoramicillustration which is accordion folded to form a plurality of leaves,the leaves also bearing textual material relating to the panoramicillustration whereby the strip may be folded for page by page reading ormay be unfolded for display of the panoramic illustration.

A further object of the invention is to provide a book constructionhaving a plurality of leaves flexibly secured together in accordionfashion to form a strip, the strip bearing a panoramic illustration andthe leaves bearing textual material relating to the panoramicillustration, a front cover to which the first leaf of the strip may besecured and a rear cover to which the last leaf of the strip may bedetachably secured for either page by page reading of the leaves or forunfolding the strip for display of the panoramic illustration.

It is yet another object of the invention to provide a book inserthaving a wholly detachable elongated, accordion-folded strip, having onone side of its leaves a panoramic illustration and related text, andwhich may be printed on its other side with a substantially identicalillustration or otherwise.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS These objects and other objects,features and advantages of the invention will become apparent as thedescription of the preferred embodiment proceeds with the aid of theaccompanying drawings wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a book constructed in accordance withthe preferred embodiment of the invention with the panoramic viewunfolded as a freestanding unit.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the book shown in FIG. 1 with the lastleaf mounted to the back cover panel to form a book.

FIG. 3 is a side elevation showing in detail the pictorial and textualmaterial shown on the leaves exposed in FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is an elevation of the books covers showing the preferred form ofmeans for detachably securing the last leaf to the back cover to form aconventional book.

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of a modified form of the invention. I

FIG. 6 is a view of the back side of the strip of the modified form ofthe invention unfolded to form a freestanding display.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS With reference to the drawingswherein like reference numerals denote corresponding elements in theseveral views, a book constructed in accordance with the invention isindicated generally at 10. As shown in FIG. 1, the book 10 has anelongated strip 12 which is flexible at a plurality of transverse foldsl4 defining therebetween a plurality of flexibly joined leaves 16. Thestrip 12 may be integral, in which case the means for flexibly joiningthe leaves 16 comprise their transverse folds 14; or the strip may befabricated from the individual sheets defining the leaves 16, whichsheets are flexibly joined or secured together at the folds 14 by othermeans, as by flexible pressure sensitized tape.

The combinational book of the invention has the leaves 16 normallyreversely turned back upon themselves, or folded accordion fashion, asat the folds 14, to be ordered as or present a layflat leaved assemblyor bulk as shown, FIG. 2.

Continuous panoramic illustration matter 18, e.g., a crocodile, isprinted longitudinally on or lengthwise of the strip 12 with theillustration portion appearing on any leaf 16 being mated with theillustration portions appearing on the leaves adjacent thereto. Textualmatter or material 20 is also printed on the leaves 16 and lengthwise ofthe strip 12, and so as to convey a story related to the illustration 18when read sequentially from the first leaf 16a to the last leaf 16b.

The book hereof may be fabricated in compact economic form with the usefor the leaves 16 of relatively thin, lightweight paper. Under theinvention, means are provided for enabling the strip 12 to be verticallystood unsupported on one longitudinal edge with the leaves 16 unfoldedand extended for continuous viewing of the panoramic illustration 18.More particularly, means are provided for stiffening the strip 12 so asto impart to the leaves 16, when so stood vertically on one longitudinaledge, a sufficient resistance to twisting out of the vertical plane tobe free standing or self supporting in that plane when unfolded andextended sufficiently to enable the panoramic illustration 18 to becontinuously viewed.

In the mentioned, relatively thin, lightweight paper embodyment of thestrip 12, and whether of integral or separate sheet construction, suchstiffening means may comprise the cutting or forming of the strip 12 andleaves 16 from paper sheet or sheets such that the grain of the paper isvertical, or transversely of the strip length, and paralleling its folds14. This transverse graining is found, again, to supply to the leaves 16a sufficient resistance to twisting or rotating out of, in other wordsrolling or collapsing from, the vertical plane,

when the leaves of the book are ordered as described to be panoramicdisplayable.

- The first leaf 16a is engaged at its back to the front cover 24 of thebook and the last leaf 16b is detachably engaged to the back cover ofthe book 26. The front and back covers 24 and 26 are fabricated fromstiff material, which may be plastic-laminated paperboard, and foldablyengaged at 28 and 30 through means defining a book back or spine 32.

In accordance with the invention, and as just indicated, means areprovided for engaging strip 12 to front cover 24 at the back of saidfirst leaf 16a. In the illustrated embodiment, such first leaf-frontcover engaging means may comprise adhesive means applied between theleaf and cover, or more particularly to the aforesaid back side of firstleaf 16a and inside of front cover 24.

The combinational book hereof further has means for detachably engagingsaid last leaf 16b to said back cover 26. The last leaf detachablyengaging means may comprise generally a pocket formed on the inside ofthe back cover 26, the pocket opening towards the spine of the book, andadapted to receive the right margin of last leaf 16b. As hereinembodied, such pocket is formedby a holding tab 34 adhered to the insideof back cover 26, the tab disengaged or open at its left margin, underor into which the right margin 36 of the last leaf 16b is inserted.

Referring now to FIG. 2, the book is shown with the strip 12 reverselyor accordion folded and held in layflat leaved or book form by theholding tab 34. To strengthen the book in this form a stiffening sheet38 may be laminated to the back of last leaf 16b, the grain of whichstiffening sheet 38 may be normal to the grain of said last leaf 16b, sothat will not bend or curl under the pressure exerted thereon by theholding tab 34, and so the holding pressure is transmitted toward thespine 32. The invention also provides to proportion and engage frontleaf 16a relative to the front cover 24 so that its fold 14a isessentially coincident with, or substantially engaged to, the spine 32at its forward fold 28;

and further to proportion rear leaf 16b relative to back rear cover 26,and arrange the pocket or tab 34 thereon, so as to position the rearleaf fold 14b coincident with or substantially engaged to the rear spinefold 30.

The spine 32 is constructed and arranged to closely enclose the leaves16 and inward, outfacing folds 14, when the front and back covers 24, 26are closed, this by the approximate equalling in its width of the bulkof the folded strip when reversely or accordion-folded as shown, forreading normally as a book.

The book 10 is shown in FIG. 2 opened to expose adjaceht leaves 160 and16d. To heighten the readers interest it is desirable to display on eachadjacent set of leaves 16 a focal point or highlight in both textual andpictorial terms. In the particular leaves 16c and 16d shown in detail inFIG. 3 for illustration of this concept, the text not only furthers thereaders knowledge of the overall panoramic illustration 18 (thecrocodile), but also holds his attention by highlighting a particularfeature of the illustration l8 appearing on the corresponding leaves 16cand 16d, as for example the turtle. This relationship of printed matterto structure relates a story in a cumulative manner as the illustration18 is unfolded.

It will be understood that, in the normally readable book aspect and useof the invention, the leaves 16 maybe sequentially read left to right bytheir normal manipulation of passing of the outerfolds 14 from right toleft, to present for viewing successive pairs of adjacent leaves such asthe leaves 16c, 16d. Under the invention, the leaves 16 areodd-numbered, such that the last of them (1611) is outturned from thespine 32 towards the pocket 34, as already described. And in such normalbook reading aspect, the spine 32 is seen as constructed and arranged toclosely enclose the leaves 16 and the inner folds 14, or moreparticularly the leafjoining means 14 that flexibly join left-to-rightthe odd to the even numbered of said leaves 16, when said front and backcovers 24, 26 are closed.

Spine 32 further is operable, upon the opening of said front and backcovers 24, 26, to retain said right and left and margins respectively ofsaid first and last leaves 16a, 16b substantially coincident therewith,or engaged thereagainst, again as already described. By virtue of thedescribed leaf-cover engagement, in conjunction with the leaf-coverarrangement and positioning, and together also with the book spineconstruction and operation as also just described, it is assured thatwhen the book is held by its opened covers 24, 26, and in vertical andinclined as well as horizontal reading positions, all said leaves 16will in all said positions be enabled to be turned and read as a book,while held within said covers and against fallout from said spine.

Further to the combinational, alternatively normal viewable andpanoramic displayable concept and construction of the invention book,after the leaves have been sequentially read as described the last leaf16b, may be pulled out of the holding tab 34, and the strip 12 unfoldedor opened, or more particularly substantially fully extended, forcontinuous viewing and panoramic disply of the entire illustration 18,as an emphatic summary of the story, and as clearly shown, FIG. 1. Thedramatic affect of this presentation of material tends to hold thereaders attention while combining the beneficial educational values ofpictorial and textual presentation of the material. These values arefurther enhanced by the free-standing display feature of the inventionwhereby the reader is given a permanent and pleasant reminder of thematerial presented.

It should be noted that the bottom margin of strip 12 is substantiallyaligned with the bottom margin of front cover 24, whereby when said lastleaf 16b is detached from back cover 26 the strip 12 may be pulled outand extended, as earlier described, with the cover 24 and strip 12substantially coincident or continuous, in their said free-standing inthe vertical plane on their said bottom margins.

A modified form of the book 10 is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. The peripheryof the first leaf 16a is cut at 40 as by die cutting to form aninsertable tab which is adapted to be received by a cooperating pocket42 adhered to the inside of the front cover 24. The front surface of thestrip 12 bears a panoramic illustration 18 and related text 20 similarto those described in relation to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3. The reverse side ofthe strip 12 is also provided with lengthwise printed matter, which maycomprise a panoramic illustration 44 (see FIG. 6), which illustrationmay be substantially identical to the illustration 18 shown on the frontside.

The modified form of the book 10 has particular utility as aneducational tool for teaching creative writing or as a testing device.The strip 12 may first be mounted with the first leaf 16a inserted inthe pocket 42 and the last leaf 16b inserted in the tab 34 so that thetext 20 may be sequentially read in conjunction with the unfolding ofthe illustration 18 in the normal manner as aforesaid. Thereafter thestrip 12 may be removed from the cover panels 24 and 26, unfolded,reversed, and the first leaf 16a reinserted in the pocket 36 to form afree-standing display of the illustration 44 as shown in FIG. 6. Thepocket 42 shown bears printed matter similar to that of the first leaf16a. The pocket 42 may also be transparent. Or the first leaf 16a couldbe left blank. With this arrangement of the modified form, the studentmay then be asked to compse an original composition concerning thesubject matter of the illustration or may be asked questions about theillustration.

Alternately, the last leaf 16b may be remounted to the rear cover 24(with the folds l4 reversed) to form a book having only the illustration44 exposed, and the student may be required to write appropriatesequential text for the pages 16 concerning both the overall panoramicillustration and the pictorial matter appearing on the particular leaves16 exposed. This matter of usage greatly facilitates teaching inductivereasoning and language skills.

This invention of course may be utilized to present far more complicatedsubject matters than that chosen for purposes of illustration. Forexample, the presentation of various features of geography such asmountain ranges, rivers, oceanography and space, or of historical eventsmay be effected by making an appropriate selection of the number ofleaves and the pictorial and textual matter to be presented.

It should be understood therefore that this description of the inventionis presented merely for illustrative purposes and that numerousmodifications and equivalents will be apparent to those skilled in theart which do not depart from the scope of the appended claims.

By the foregoing description the invention hereof is shown to providetextual leaves removably held within covers. The stiffness of the lastleaf, and the length of that relative to the dimensioning of the backcover between the spine and the base of the pocket thereon, are seen tocombine to hold the left margin of the last leaf substantially againstthe spine of the book. And the construction and operation of said spine,in combination therewith, is to hold the leaves together, as againstfallout from the covers, when the leaves are ordered as described fortheir reading normally as a book.

The combinational book of the invention is further shown to provide textprinted on a continuous folded sheet removably held within covers insuch manner that it can be extended for panoramic display. The leavesand cover are flush or aligned at their bottom margins, for standingerect in such display. Thus the invention book, comprising thecontinuous accordion folded sheet removably held within covers, has alsothe utility of a stable standing display, when removed and extended ashereinabove described.

I claim:

I. A normally readable, panoramic displayable book comprising a stiffbook front cover;

a stiff book back cover;

means defining a book spine,

said book spine having front and back folds, said stiff book front coverfoldably engaged at said from book spine fold,

said stiff back book cover foldably engaged at said back book spinefold; a plurality of leaves; means flexibly joining said leaves at aplurality of transverse folds in an elongated continuous strip, saidflexible joining means accordion folded in the normally readablecondition of said book whereby in said condition and front to back saidleaves extend from their front left margins alternately inwardly towardsand outwardly away from said spine, said strip combining an even numberof said leaves with an odd number of said flexible joining means wherebythe last of said leaves extends from its left front margin outwardlyaway from said spine; means engaging said strip to said front book coverat the back of the first of said strip leaves; means detachably engagingsaid last of said strip leaves to said back cover of said book, theproportioning of said first and last strip leaves, and the engaging ofthem to said front and back book covers, being such as to position theirrespective right and left margins substantially against said spine; saidspine approximately equalling in its front-toback fold width theaccordion folded bulk between said front and back book covers of saidstrip leaves and the leaf joining means that are flexibly joining leftto right the odd to the even numbered of said strip leaves, said spineoperable to retain said right and left hand margins respectively of saidfirst and last strip leaves substantially engaged thereaginast upon theopening of said front and back book covers, whereby, when said book isheld by said opened covers in vertical and inclined as well ashorizontal reading positions, all said strip leaves will in all saidpositions be enabled to be turned and read as a book while held withinsaid covers and against fallout from said spine; the bottom margin ofsaid strip substantially aligned with the bottom margin of said frontcover whereby when said last of said strip leaves is detached from saidback cover said strip may be pulled out and extended with said cover andstrip free-standing on their said bottom margins in the vertical of saidreading positions; continuous text and illustration matter printed onthe fronts of said strip leaves, said text matter arranged lengthwise ofsaid strip and to be read sequentially from one to the next of saidleaves, said illustration matter continuous across the length of saidstrip with the illustration portion on each leaf mated with theillustration portions on the leaves adjacent thereto; and meansstiffening said strip so as to impart to said leaves a sufficientresistance to twisting out of plane to stand unsupported when said stripis pulled out of said covers and extended sufficiently to order saidleaves to present at their front sides a continuously viewable,panoramic display of said lengthwise-printed, adjacent-leafmated, textand illustration matter. 2. The book construction of claim 1 in which:said strip comprises an integral elongated sheet of grained paper; saidleaves comprise lengths of said strip joined at transverse folds of saidintegral sheet; said means flexibly joining said leaves comprise saidtransverse folds of said sheet; and said stiffening means comprise theorienting of said sheet transverse to the length of said strip andparallel to said folds.

3. The book construction of claim 2 which further includes a grainedstiffening sheet secured to the back of said last leaf, the grain ofsaid stiffening sheet being normal to the grain of said last leaf,thereby strengthening said folded strip when engaged to said rear coverfor sequential reading of said leaves as a book.

4. The book construction of claim 1 in which said detachably engagingmeans comprises a pocket formed on the inside of said back cover andopening toward said spine, said pocket receiving the right margin ofsaid last leaf.

5. The book construction of claim 4 in which said first leaf is securedto the inside of said front cover so that the first leaf fold is alignedwith the front fold of said spine, and in which said pocket is adaptedto hold said last leaf with the last leaf fold in alignment with theback fold of said spine.

6. The book construction of claim 1 in which said first leaf is fixedlyengaged to the inside of said front cover.

7. The book construction of claim 1 wherein said front cover-first leafengaging means comprise means for detachably engaging the same, andcontinuous text and/or illustration matter lengthwise printed on theback side of said strip.

8. The book construction of claim 7 in which said first leaf detachablyengaging means comprises a pocket formed on the inside of said frontcover and opening toward said spine, said pocket receiving the leftmargin of said first leaf.

9. The book construction of claim 6, in which said means engaging saidstrip to said front cover comprise adhesive means applied to the back ofsaid first leaf and to the inside of said front cover.

1. A normally readable, panoramic displayable book comprising a stiffbook front cover; a stiff book back cover; means defining a book spine,said book spine having front and back folds, said stiff book front coverfoldably engaged at said front book spine fold, said stiff back bookcover foldably engaged at said back book spine fold; a plurality ofleaves; means flexibly joining said leaves at a plurality of transversefolds in an elongated continuous strip, said flexible joining meansaccordion folded in the normally readable condition of said book wherebyin said condition and front to back said leaves extend from their frontleft margins alternately inwardly towards and outwardly away from saidspine, said strip combining an even number of said leaves with an oddnumber of said flexible joining means whereby the last of said leavesextends from its left front margin outwardly away from said spine; meansengaging said strip to said front book cover at the back of the first ofsaid strip leaves; means detachably engaging said last of said stripleaves to said back cover of said book, the proportioning of said firstand last strip leaves, and the engaging of them to said front and backbook covers, being such as to position their respective right and leftmargins substantially against said spine; said spine approximatelyequalling in its front-to-back fold width the accordion folded bulkbetween said front and back book covers of said strip leaves and theleaf joining means that are flexibly joining left to right the odd tothe even numbered of said strip leaves, said spine operable to retainsaid right and left hand margins respectively of said first and laststrip leaves substantially engaged thereaginast upon the opening of saidfront and back book covers, whereby, when said book is held by saidopened covers in vertical and inclined as well as horizontal readingpositions, all said strip leaves will in all said positions be enabledto be turned and read as a book while held within said covers andagainst fallout from said spine; the bottom margin of said stripsubstantially aligned with the bottom margin of said front cover wherebywhen said last of said strip leaves is detached from said back coversaid strip may be pulled out and extended with said cover and stripfreestanding on their said bottom margins in the vertical of saidreading positions; continuous text and illustration matter printed onthe fronts of said strip leaves, said text matter arranged lengthwise ofsaid strip and to be read sequentially from one to the next of saidleaves, said illustration matter continuous across the length of saidstrip with the illustration portion on each leaf mated with theillustration portions on the leaves adjacent thereto; and meansstiffening said strip so as to impart to said leaves a sufficientresistance to twisting out of plane to stand unsupported when said stripis pulled out of said covers and extended sufficiently to order saidleaves to present at their front sides a continuously viewable,panoramic display of said lengthwise-printed, adjacent-leafmated, textand illustration matter.
 2. The book construction of claim 1 in which:said strip comprises an integral elongated sheet of grained paper; saidleaves comprise lengths of said strip joined at transverse folds of saidintegral sheet; said means flexibly joining said leaves comprise saidtransverse folds of said sheet; and said stiffening means comprise theorienting of said sheet transverse to the length of said strip andparallel to said folds.
 3. The book construction of claim 2 whichfurther includes a grained stiffening sheet secured to the back of saidlast leaf, the grain of said stiffening sheet being normal to the grainof said last leaf, thereby strengthening said folded strip when engagedto said rear cover for sequential reading of said leaves as a book. 4.The book construction of claim 1 in which said detachably engaging meanscomprises a pocket formed on the inside of said back cover and openingtoward said spine, said pocket receiving the right margin of said lastleaf.
 5. The book construction of claim 4 in which said first leaf issecured to the inside of said front cover so that the first leaf fold isaligned with the front fold of said spine, and in which said pocket isadapted to hold said last leaf with the last leaf fold in alignment withthe back fold of said spine.
 6. The book construction of claim 1 inwhich said first leaf is fixedly engaged to the inside of said frontcover.
 7. The book construction of claim 1 wherein said frontcover-first leaf engaging means comprise means for detachably engagingthe same, and continuous text and/or illustration matter lengthwiseprinted on the back side of said strip.
 8. The book construction ofclaim 7 in which said first leaf detachably engaging means comprises apocket formed on the inside of said front cover and opening toward saidspine, said pocket receiving the left margin of said first leaf.
 9. Thebook construction of claim 6, in which said means engaging said strip tosaid front cover comprise adhesive means applied to the back of saidfirst leaf and to the inside of said front cover.